search2

Name: search2
Rating: 4.788235294117647 (85 reviews)
Author: renny

Practical and extensible search assistant

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search2 is a powerful and practical Chrome extension designed as a versatile search assistant. It supports global character encoding, ensuring internationalized search capabilities from the start. With a user-friendly interface, search2 allows for deep customization of search engines and categories to fit your unique search habits.

In addition to word search, search2 integrates image search directly into the context menu and supports moving search. The extension is extremely lightweight (just over 120KB), avoids third-party JavaScript libraries for fast and reliable performance, and respects the original search engine experience without tampering with results pages. It's a flexible tool ideal for users who seek a comprehensive and customizable search experience.

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By:

renny

Users:

1,000+

Rating:

4.79

(85)

Version:

2.4.0 Last updated: 2025-04-07

Creation date:

2018-12-12

Risk:

Permissions:

storage
contextMenus

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size:

393.22K

Email:

wu*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 23,045 ▼ 17

Other rankings

#2071 in Tools ▲ 10 #240 in define keyword 3 ▼ 102

User reviews

Search2 is a highly praised Chrome extension that allows flexible and customizable switching between search engines, beloved by users especially in mainland China. However, multiple reviews highlight issues with UI interference (like the sidebar overlapping YouTube subscriptions), editing bugs for custom search engines, lack of multi-browser support, and missing features such as background tab opening and consistent search bar visibility on all engines. Despite the shortcomings, users are very thankful and find it highly convenient for daily searching tasks.

Pros

Highly customizable search engine switching plugin with great flexibility.
Very useful for users who switch between Baidu, Bing, Google, and other search engines.
Widely appreciated for convenience and ease of use.
Provides a helpful sidebar and search bar functionality on various pages.
Regular users praise the author's effort and the extension's usefulness over months of use.

Cons

Issues with sidebar covering subscription area on YouTube and interfering with Google Images.
Inability or bugs related to editing or creating new search engines.
Lack of support for Firefox and Edge browsers is frequently requested.
No option to open search results tabs in the background, causing inconvenience.
Search bar not appearing on many search engines or pages is a common complaint.

Recent reviews

哥你终于重新上架了

ZZ Z, 2025-04-03

The left side bar cover the subscriptions on youtube, can you fix this? or perhaps don't hide google images when the side bar is in "auto-hide search2"

Miguel Sartori, 2023-11-15

好东西！太强了！就是只有“网页”标签下的内容会铺开展示，其他全给折叠起来了，并且还不支持自定义

anjie guo, 2021-11-01

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Extension safety

Risk impact

search2 requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

search2 has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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